reply to post by hinky
It's not just the domestic drilling we're having problems with, some if not many enviromentalist/bunny-hugger groups are trying to block big oil
companies from making investments in creating new oil refineries here in the United States to actually bring the prices down.
Let me lay it down:
We drill all of this crude oil but we only have a handful of domestic facilities to refine the oil we are making, and these refineries were made back
in the 70s and beforehand which means that they are aging and we are not able to build anymore new refineries or significantly upgrade any already in
existence. So in turn we are forced to ship much of our crude oil out of country in order to process it more quickly, and then from there in those
countries where it gets refined it gets more likely to be sold over there because it isn't very economical to haul all that refined oil back here to
the states and it's easiest to sell it there.
So we want to don't blame the oil companies for something that is being blocked off by the special interest groups.
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